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u/AgileRenoir · 1 pointr/ProductManagement

This is a great start! I'm going through a similar process of resume refinement right now, so I understand how much work is involved. I'm including a bunch of feedback based on what I've learned so far and had success with. I've also hired a couple of PMs as a part of my current role, which has helped with seeing what "clicked" for me when on the hiring-side of things. Apologies for the length in advance, hopefully this is useful.


  • Emphasize the tech aspects of your current work instead of mentioning construction. Was there any software involved, maybe the marketing website? If so, include how you optimized the site (A/B tests, Analytics, heatmaps, whatever). If you mention construction, tie it back to general product management.

  • As a PM, I can see that you contributed significantly to growth. 60% YoY growth is awesome! Your skill set potentially aligns with the role of a Growth PM at a SaaS company. Look into the metrics those type of PMs use and see if you can structure your resume around them. Note: Growth is a very specific skill set and a potential selling point. It might also pigeonhole you, so consider having a growth focused version of your resume and a general PM version.

  • Adapt phrasing of your accomplishments. Instead of "contributed to 60% YoY growth", consider phrasing like "generating 60% YoY growth". I know that normally you want to emphasize that your product's success is a team effort. With a resume, however, you need to set aside that humility and realistically look at the outcomes that you made happen. This will feel weird at first if you're not used to taking credit as a leader. That's a good trait to have most of the time, but your resume is one of the places where it's 100% okay to brag about the great work you've done.

  • Continuing the previous point, adapt each line of your resume to be focused on the outcomes you've delivered to your company as a PM. What were the results of your different responsibilities? How did you move the needle on key performance indicators? You might need to do some additional research to discover this, particularly if your company is less data informed. You're already doing this for a number of points in your resume, which is awesome.

  • I would check on this with a couple other people, but you should use present tense verbs for your current role and past tense verbs for previous roles. Both should have an active voice, not a passive one.

  • "aggressive timelines and multiple roadblocks" sounds really negative. I can tell that was a stressful project for you, but also something you take pride in. Restructure this line so it focuses on what you're proud about instead of what stressed you out. It will show you're resilient and don't hold grudges.

  • Revamp your background section, it reads a lot like an old school objective field. Optional: Consider bullet points.

  • Consider taking a scrum certification course for Product Owners. It will show you have a strong grasp of agile concepts regardless of your industry. Your existing certs for Google and Facebook Ads are great. Make sure to use the exact names of each product if you aren't already. (eg Google Adwords)

  • If you haven't already, read "Cracking the PM Interview" by Gayle McDowell and Jackie Bavaro. It will help structure how you think about your accomplishments as a PM and also prep you for interviews. Here's a non-referral link to it on Amazon.

  • Remove the blue hyperlinks from URLs and your email.

  • As a final note, you've only been a PM for about a year and a half. This might make things more challenging since you're still fairly early in your career. It's not a deal-breaker, you just need to show you've learned quickly and rapidly grown into the role. Focus on applying to roles that don't require too many years of experience. Most entry PM positions say 2-3 years, but companies are often flexible. APM roles tend to focus on recent graduates as a sort of apprenticeship. With your skillset, it seems like you should be able to get into a standard PM role somewhere.

    Keep at it and don't get discouraged! Your next opportunity is out there.
u/lukebichard · 4 pointsr/ProductManagement

Great to hear that you're looking to get into product ownership, it's a great career with a bunch of learning opportunities and career options. Understanding agile and the various frameworks is a great start. It sounds like you have some technical understanding (although not a must, it can help tremendously) and also domain expertise...again more ticks. At its heart a PO is responsible for ensuring that what your team build is the correct thing. This can be summarised as the following

  1. value risk (whether customers will buy it or users will choose to use it)
  2. usability risk (whether users can figure out how to use it)
  3. feasibility risk (whether our engineers can build what we need with the time, skills and technology we have)
  4. business viability risk (whether this solution also works for the various aspects of our business)

    This work is often called 'Discovery' and learning how to ensure that these 4 critera are meet and then suitably broken down to stopries which can be consumed for your dev/qa team is keys. As with everything there is a host of methods/frameworks out there, but here is some articles i've found good.

    https://www.gov.uk/guidance/content-design/user-needs - a comon method for creating initial stories, and most improtantly makes you consider why you're creating the story as you need to talk to the benifit. (the british government's digital transformation is actually a great case study for PO's)

    https://www.devbridge.com/articles/how-to-set-up-dual-track-scrum-in-jira/ -Dual track scrum is a framework for creating a design framework which preceeds the dev/test sprint.

    I'd suggest trying to find out which agile methodology your company uses (Scrum, kanban etc) and then spending time gathering more info on the specific methodology. If Scrum then the key ceremonies a PO is needed for is Sprint Planning and Demos & Retrospectives. Learn what is expected of you during these ceremonies.

    A couple of books that i found useful:

    https://www.amazon.co.uk/Lean-Startup-Innovation-Successful-Businesses/dp/0670921602/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1541540223&sr=8-1&keywords=lean+startup - Lean Startup....kinda product mangement/owner essential reading

    https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sprint-Solve-Problems-Test-Ideas/dp/0593076117/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1541540263&sr=8-1&keywords=sprint - Sprint. A practical guide toi how to solve big problems. As you only have a week heres a 90 second video on it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2vSQPh6MCE

    https://www.amazon.co.uk/Inspired-Create-Tech-Products-Customers/dp/1119387507/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1541540364&sr=8-1&keywords=inspired - Inspired - A great book specifically on Product manangement but is also usefuil for PO's

    Once you become a PO, the trick is applying the host of diffrent frameworks and understanding what works best for your team is the tricky part. If you can find yourself a mentor it's a great help to do so as they can help you navigate potential hurdles.

    Hope this helps and good luck with the interview

    PS i didn't continue with education post GCSE, don't let that worry you.

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u/Thor2718 · 10 pointsr/ProductManagement

You can take this answer all kind of ways, but I would recommend that you start with a classic. How to Win Friends and Influence People is probably the original self improvement book:
https://www.amazon.com/How-Win-Friends-Influence-People-ebook/dp/B07XRXR5PC



From there, I would suggest focusing on areas of personal weakness. If you aren’t sure where to focus, read What Got You Here Won’t Get You There:
https://www.amazon.com/What-Got-Here-Wont-There-ebook/dp/B000Q9J128


Third, focus on how to think aka “mental models”. In product, you will never be the “smartest” person in the room. Reasoning by analogy, asking the right questions, and discerning the map from the territory are all useful skills.

Here is my favorite blog which has tons of resources on mental models:
https://fs.blog/


All three of these have been turning points in my Product Management career. Good luck!

u/infinityplusplus · 4 pointsr/ProductManagement

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  1. In my SaaS startup world, your product should do one of two things: save customers' money or save them time. If you save them money, that's straightforward, you charge a % of the amount you save the customer. On the other hand, if your product saves a developer 1hr of time a month (based on your estimate), you can say 1hr of a developer's time is $100, so I'm going to price product at 10% of that, i.e. $10 a month. Also, look at established competitors who offer similar value to your product, that gives you a good benchmark for pricing your product. So, in summary: price product at % of value to customer or based on market price of competitor product offering similar value.
  2. In an early stage startup, the founder does the pricing. For medium stage startups, a product manager would have the responsibility to price product. For large companies, there's often a pricing team that does sophisticated modeling to come up with pricing.

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    I found the following book very useful to come up with a framework for pricing decisions: Monetizing Innovation. https://www.amazon.com/Monetizing-Innovation-Companies-Design-Product/dp/1119240867/.
u/jbuitrago2014 · 9 pointsr/ProductManagement

This is a great resource: https://www.oneweekpm.com. This course is a great place to start.

Hitchhiker's Guide to Product Management ( great blog ):

Books to read after the course: https://yilunzh.com/pm/

INSPIRED: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love: https://www.amazon.com/INSPIRED-Create-Tech-Products-Customers-ebook/dp/B077NRB36N

The Lean Product Playbook: How to Innovate with Minimum Viable Products and Rapid Customer Feedback: https://www.amazon.com/Lean-Product-Playbook-Innovate-Products/dp/1118960874

Shipping Greatness: Practical lessons on building and launching outstanding software, learned on the job at Google and Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Shipping-Greatness-Practical-launching-outstanding/dp/1449336574

Hope this guides help.

u/Deelixious919 · 1 pointr/ProductManagement

OP try giving this text a read: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0615930417/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl_nodl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0615930417&linkCode=as2&tag=seatintecoac-20

Basically a CC functions like this: Credit card companies make the bulk of their money from three things: interest, fees charged to cardholders, and transaction fees paid by businesses that accept credit cards.

Think of a credit card as a short term loan, so if you were to start lending money, what would you look into first? Determining who your target market is. Is the CC for college students, first time creditors, arm forces members, state employees, mid income or new creditors with 0 credit?

How are you finding your CC company?
Will you have crediting investors who would get profits from the collected interests over time it will you have shared holders of a financial institution?

Think about how you would go about establishing credit worthiness, credit interest tiers, payment methods, insurance, security and fraud etc.

Hope this gives you something to start on.

u/TalentedRickyBobby · 1 pointr/ProductManagement

Can’t recommend this book enough (300 pages):

Cracking the PM Interview: How to Land a Product Manager Job in Technology https://www.amazon.com/dp/0984782818/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_kWKyCb3XHZKFX

“This is Product Management” Podcast: Great material that’s pretty dense with little bullshit. Could easily snag some great management theories and jot them down.

YouTube Nir Eyal. Wrote the book “Hooked: How to Build Habit-forming Products.” He’s a great speaker. Beyond him there are a ton of great YouTube videos of people in product, ProductCon videos might be a start.

Eric Reis blog.

u/jsandman0248 · 5 pointsr/ProductManagement

Not sure if the intent is for your client to drop your product slides into a larger presentation, or if you’re intending to build the complete presentation for your client...either way, you may find it useful to incorporate storytelling techniques to amp up viewer engagement. I’ve found the following books very good:

Resonate, by Nancy Duarte

Storynomics, by Robert McKee and Tom Gerace

Good luck!

u/almaghest · 19 pointsr/ProductManagement

The book I read it in was https://www.amazon.com/Product-Management-Practice-Real-World-Connective/dp/1491982276 and I'm 99% sure they go into more details in that book about specifically what they meant by it. (In general it's a pretty good book that I'd recommend)

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For me it means things like:

  • When a someone (usually for me a developer or a stakeholder) says something you don't understand, don't be afraid to admit you don't understand and to ask for more details.
  • When you catch wind of something that conflicts with one of the assumptions you've made, don't just ignore it. Talk to whoever you need to talk to in order to get clarity as soon as you can, even though it would probably be mentally/emotionally easier to ignore it.
  • When a senior/exec stakeholder insists they need a "thing" and you don't understand why, don't let their status at the company stop you from asking about why they want "thing"

    That sort of stuff.
u/aigeair · 1 pointr/ProductManagement

Have you read Decode and Conquer (http://amzn.to/29G0irv) and How Google Works (http://amzn.to/29G0p6k)?

Some videos:
https://userbrain.net/blog/product-management-videos-that-are-worth-your-time

But still, I'd love to keep learning. Especially about improving people skills. It gets more important as you move up.

u/allthecoffeesDP · 1 pointr/ProductManagement

You might want to check out this book- Cracking the PM Interview .It's a little dated now, but talks about what it's like to interview at a number of companies, including Facebook. Can I ask a question in return? I'm looking to pivot into the PM role. However - I lack a technical background. Any recommendations on how to address that in general or in the interview? Can I ask what small/medium sized companies you worked at? All people talk about are the big 4-5 :)

u/danfromtheUK · 1 pointr/ProductManagement

Read this: First 90 Days, Updated and Expanded: Critical Success Strategies for New Leaders at All Levels https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1422188612/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_XqeFDbVRQHA8B

Then read this: The Lean Startup: How Constant Innovation Creates Radically Successful Businesses https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0670921602/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_nreFDbZQPJHRM

Biggest failure is lack of humility. Remember you are a Servant Leader (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Servant_leadership) and are responsible for everything while owning nothing.

u/inthemixmike · 4 pointsr/ProductManagement

Now that he's in his 40s I'd recommend doing some introspection and possibly re-branding of his resume and image. He's in his PRIME money earning years and needs to capitalize on his experience.

In the absence of an amazing mentor this book helped me understand what was required to make the jump to Director and Senior Director. https://www.amazon.com/What-Got-Here-Wont-There-ebook/dp/B000Q9J128

u/ryry9379 · 2 pointsr/ProductManagement

Mostly because I wanted to analyze baseball stats, and at the time (4-5 years ago) that was mostly done in R. If the last industry conference I went to is any indication, it still is, many of the presentations features plots that were clearly ggplot2. There are also books like this one floating around: https://www.amazon.com/Analyzing-Baseball-Data-Chapman-Hall/dp/1466570229/ref=nodl_.

u/jazybp · 4 pointsr/ProductManagement

Product Management in Practice... Have recommended this to a few people who are early on in their PM career (was helpful to me as well!)

u/tteg_pm · 1 pointr/ProductManagement

The Product Manager's Desk Reference by Steven Haines (I heard rumors he is creating a 3rd edition)

u/FiliKlepto · 7 pointsr/ProductManagement

If you haven’t been recommended it yet, you might want to check out Cracking The PM Interview

u/PullThisFinger · 1 pointr/ProductManagement

Your title indicates knowledge of quality/reliability standards are going to be a critical need, right?

Find the Q&R standards that are used by aerospace firms & bookmark them.

It also helps to become familiar with the math underlying many statistical reliability concepts. I ran across this one (The New Weibull Handbook) a few days ago::

https://www.amazon.com/Handbook-Reliability-Statistical-Predicting-Supportability/dp/0965306232

Amazon wants WAY too much for this, but I found an earlier edition elsewhere.

u/ihave2kittens · 2 pointsr/ProductManagement

Read cracking the pm interview.

Cracking the PM Interview: How to Land a Product Manager Job in Technology https://www.amazon.com/dp/0984782818/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_HAdBzb02F7VZV

u/throwaway13894873 · 2 pointsr/ProductManagement

https://www.amazon.ca/Industrial-Organization-Strategies-Paul-Belleflamme/dp/0521681596 the last few chapters of this go into it in some detail. There are many papers on the subject though. Industrial Organization + Two sided markets should turn up a lot of results.